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ISO 639-3 · rarrar
Austronesian family
Cook Islands Māori
Māori Kūki 'Āirani
Cook Islands Māori is a language of the Tahitic branch (Austronesian), spoken in Cook Islands. Wikidata counts about 17,500 speakers (2018). Wikidata describes it as “Eastern Polynesian language of the Cook Islands”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
rar- Glottocode
raro1241- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- -21.23, -159.78
- Wikipedia
- 43 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
11levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Cook Islands Māori · Māori Kūki 'Āirani |
|---|---|
| Also called | Cook Islands Māori, Rarotongan, rar, Te reo Ipukarea, Māori Kūki ʻĀirani |
| All speakers | 17,500 (2018) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Cook Islands |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Cook Islands Māori
The branches above Cook Islands Māori, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch220Central–Eastern Oceanicbranch44Central Pacificbranch38Polynesianbranch36Nuclear Polynesianbranch9TahiticbranchrarCook Islands Māorilanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
